A solitary pearl;—all peerless, never sad.
Increase of age gives wine fresh strength, as well is known;
Especially truth’s wine, that flows from God’s high throne.
Select a Teacher, then. Without such, travel’s vain;
The way is dangerous,—beset with evil’s train.10
By well-known road, though travelled many times before,
Without a guide to venture, opens peril’s door.
How then an unknown path thou ne’er hast followed yet?
Go not alone, without a guide;—act not in fret.
Unless thy Teacher be at hand to lead thee right,